Strategy: 5 Simple Things Super Productive People Do on Mondays…Starting Monday Firefighting will Put You Behind Schedule for the Entire Week
Monday can totally feel like a drag. You just had a great weekend of fun and play and now it’s back to the workweek. Even those who love their job can find Mondays a real buzz kill. But Monday can also be an exciting beginning. With the right approach it can stimulate efficiency and productivity for the […]
Leadership:You Don’t Have To Be A People Manager To Have A Successful Career…Did you Know Research has Shown that Only about One in 10 Employees has the Necessary Traits to be a Good People Manager?
At a recent coffee talk with several young people I mentor, the discussion took an interesting turn. When I asked the group what it meant to be successful in their careers, almost every person said that success meant being promoted into higher and higher-level jobs and eventually managing a large team of people. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” […]
Strategy: 6 Verbal Tricks Bosses use to Manipulate Employees…Now it’s Your Turn. Any Deceptive (or Just Irritating) Conversation Moves You’d Like to Add to the List?
We all notice when people overuse certain words or phrases. (I love him, but as I write this somewhere Howard Stern is saying, “In other words…”) I’m guilty too, having once carried on an all too public affair with, “That’s neither here nor there.” (In my defense I always thought it was neither here nor […]
Leadership: We Are All Temporary Workers…It Will all be Over Sooner Than you Think. Whether you Love or Hate your Job, it is Not Permanent
Nothing is permanent. It is easy to forget that. Day after day, you take the same commute to work. Month after month, someone – your client or boss, perhaps – manages to annoy you. They are unreasonable, over-demanding, insensitive. You long for the day when no one is your boss. Not so fast. It will […]
Your Career: How To Conduct A Pain Interview With Your Hiring Manager…You May have to Ask Several Pain-Related Questions. Even Very Competent & Astute Managers Don’t Always have a Clear View of What’s Working Well & What isn’t. You Will be a Consultant to your Hiring Manager, Even Before you Get a Job! Practice Pain Interviewing & ee if you don’t find what other Job-Seekers have Found: That it’s More Interesting, more Intellectually Stimulating, More Fun & More Likely to Lead to a Job Offer to Talk about Pain & Solutions Than to Stick to the Interview Script!
Pain Interviewing begins when you shift your hiring executive’s focus from the standard interview script to the actual business matters he or she is responsible for. We call it Pain Interviewing because in the same way that a Pain Letter deals with the real Business Pain behind the job ad, a Pain Interview digs into […]
Strategy: Tips for Dealing with Employees Whose Social Media Posts Reflect Badly on Your Company…Today, Employees Share Gripes & Gossip Online, as They Used to Around a Water Cooler
In early February 2015, a Texas pizzeria owner “terminated” an employee before she’d even had her first day of work after she tweeted vulgarities about her future job. In January 2015, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that a Mississippi police sergeant, fired in 2012 after she posted Facebook comments criticizing her police chief, […]
Leadership: To Get To The Top, Know What You Want & Be Prepared To Take Risks…So, If you Want to Make Waves in the Office, Treat your Career Like an Adventure. Be Single Minded, be Determined, Listen, & Learn
Last week I spoke to Shellye Archambeau, CEO of Silicon Valley based Governance, Risk and Compliance Cloud Apps company, MetricStream. Additionally a Board Director of Verizon, Nordstrom, Watermark, and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, in 2014 Shellye featured at #2 in Business Insider’s list of the 25 most influential African Americans in Technology. One of […]
Strategy: 13 Podcasts that will Make you Smarter…If You’ve ever been Tempted to Describe Yourself as a Productivity Nerd, then “Back to Work” is Right Up your Hotkey-Laden Alley
46 million Americans listen to a podcast every month. Podcasts are gaining in popularity for a number of reasons: You can listen in the car or on the train to work, you can dig deep into a topic, and you don’t have to burn your eyes out on a screen. ‘Radiolab’ will help you […]
Strategy: Listen Up Gen Y! Advice on Personal & Professional Growth from Gen X…Those Born From 1982-2000(Gen Y) Represent the Largest Growing Segment of the Workforce Today
Those born from around 1982 until around 2000 are commonly referred to as Gen Y. They represent the largest growing segment of the workforce today. It is estimated that 45% of the workforce today consists of Gen Y, and that number is projected to grow to about 75% by 2025. That means that Gen Y […]
Leadership:Changing The Workplace: Past & Future…The 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Work Which are Creating an Unprecendented War for Talent That is Forcing Organizations to Shift
At most organizations around the world decisions around how we work follow a very top down chain of command . The executives or key stakeholders that sit at the top of our organizations decide everything including how we work, what we work on, what we wear, who we work with, what technologies we use, and […]